Course Catalog • Anthropology

Covers the mechanisms and principles of Darwinian evolution with special emphasis on human and primate data. Lecture topics include genetics, variation, primate ethology, and the fossil evidence for human evolution, Mendelian and population genetics, blood group systems, quantitative morphological variation, and fossil human and primate skeletal material. Thirteen written assignments; midcourse and final examinations. Instructor: Anne Justice.

This course is available only for 4 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Jurmain et al. Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 10th ed., Thomson/Wadsworth.

A more intensive treatment of the content of ANTH 104. Not open to students who have taken ANTH 104 or ANTH 105. Thirteen written assignments; book review; midcourse and final examinations. Instructor: Anne Justice.

This course is available only for 4 hours when taken through Independent Study.

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Jurmain et al. Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 10th ed., Thomson/Wadsorth.